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mmmc_35 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 5:55 am So my work did the antibody tests. Those who already had a positive viral test didnt participate and those on their days off did not participate. The tests are supposed to be 70% accurate.

We had 20% of the approximately 350 tests come back positive. I included the viral positives in the group also. We had 1 hospitalization, a guy with major lung issues previously.

I find this suprising. I figured it would be closer to 50%. A work group whom has not stayed home and has a ton of contact with large swaths of the populace. While cleaning and PPE have obviously helped, but I still find 20% strange.

My conclusion is it may not be as transmittable as suggested. I have personally dealt with a couple of active positive viral people. 2 OD's and 2 work people, that I know of. I do not have the antibodies even though I had no PPE on any contact. I got in trouble for not putting on PPE before CCR on the 2 ODs. 1 lived 1 did not. Seemed wrong to stop go out to my car and get gear while someone's dead.

Just some info for you all.

IE wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 9:16 am Hey - curious if there has been any special policy established for the antibody-positive folks. Are they operating as if that means not at risk or risk to others? Or still same policy around PPE and such?

mmmc_35 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 9:52 am

IE wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 9:16 am Hey - curious if there has been any special policy established for the antibody-positive folks. Are they operating as if that means not at risk or risk to others? Or still same policy around PPE and such?

No there isn't. One would think admin would but there hasn't been. If admin was truely worried positive folks would work in covid areas or calls.

The county just put a mask order in effect and it applies to everyone. Honestly I am not directly obeying. I ask people if they want me to have it on. But facial expressions are so much of language. Convincing a suicidal chick you care, (weather you do or dont) is hard without human interaction. Or 94 year old deloris that a man didn't break into her house she was dreaming.

According to the team’s findings, a Covid-19 infection generally begins when the virus enters the body through ACE2 receptors in the nose, (The receptors, which the virus is known to target, are abundant there.) The virus then proceeds through the body, entering cells in other places where ACE2 is also present: the intestines, kidneys, and heart. This likely accounts for at least some of the disease’s cardiac and GI symptoms.
But once Covid-19 has established itself in the body, things start to get really interesting. According to Jacobson’s group, the data Summit analyzed shows that Covid-19 isn’t content to simply infect cells that already express lots of ACE2 receptors. Instead, it actively hijacks the body’s own systems, tricking it into upregulating ACE2 receptors in places where they’re usually expressed at low or medium levels, including the lungs.
In this sense, Covid-19 is like a burglar who slips in your unlocked second-floor window and starts to ransack your house. Once inside, though, they don’t just take your stuff — they also throw open all your doors and windows so their accomplices can rush in and help pillage more efficiently.
The renin–angiotensin system (RAS) controls many aspects of the circulatory system, including the body’s levels of a chemical called bradykinin, which normally helps to regulate blood pressure. According to the team’s analysis, when the virus tweaks the RAS, it causes the body’s mechanisms for regulating bradykinin to go haywire. Bradykinin receptors are resensitized, and the body also stops effectively breaking down bradykinin. (ACE normally degrades bradykinin, but when the virus downregulates it, it can’t do this as effectively.)
The end result, the researchers say, is to release a bradykinin storm

By acting like a natural ACE inhibitor, Covid-19 may be causing the same effects that hypertensive patients sometimes get when they take blood pressure–lowering drugs. ACE inhibitors are known to cause a dry cough and fatigue, two textbook symptoms of Covid-19. And they can potentially increase blood potassium levels, which has also been observed in Covid-19 patients. The similarities between ACE inhibitor side effects and Covid-19 symptoms strengthen the bradykinin hypothesis, the researchers say.
ACE inhibitors are also known to cause a loss of taste and smell. Jacobson stresses, though, that this symptom is more likely due to the virus “affecting the cells surrounding olfactory nerve cells” than the direct effects of bradykinin.

Otis Day wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2020 4:10 pm Anyone on the board had Covid? 6 months into it and it finally hit my place of employment. 4 women on the first floor have it. I know a couple of firemen that had it in the summer as well. They report not having a bad case of it. They both stated allergy like symptoms.

• Had a bout of what is consistent with regular fall allergies and wife at same time. Pretty confident it was just the usual.
• Was really sick in March. Called everywhere, trying to get a test, and just got the runaround. Convinced they either had absolute zero or extremely limited supplies. I was knocked on my ass for about 48 hrs, then suddenly completely fine. Similar to what wife + child had in February. Could have been, but a regular flu seems more likely (had had the shot, but the effectiveness isn't all that great).
• Mother in law was in the hospital with it for week and a half. Fortunately wasn't around near the time where she came down with it.

Otis Day wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2020 4:10 pm Anyone on the board had Covid?

Otis Day wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:00 pm Well, the wife has it. She tested Tues and got the results yesterday. Nothing serious at this time. She has had a low grade temp, aches/pains, headache, some sinus stuff (which I think is just here normal fall sinusitis. It will be an interesting 14 days of quarantine since the daughter is home as well. Another 3-4 days it will be like a WWE cage match in the house.

Otis Day wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:00 pm Well, the wife has it. She tested Tues and got the results yesterday. Nothing serious at this time. She has had a low grade temp, aches/pains, headache, some sinus stuff (which I think is just here normal fall sinusitis. It will be an interesting 14 days of quarantine since the daughter is home as well. Another 3-4 days it will be like a WWE cage match in the house.

southdakbearfan wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 7:52 pm Just going through my last day of quarantine.

Tested positive 13 days ago along with my 11 year old son. Fever, massive joint and body aches, night sweats the first 4 days. Got a little tickle/horseness in the back of my throat but finally feeling better now. Also had bad muscle cramps at night too, one so bad in my thigh I got a huge black and blue mark from it.

My son was down for about 2 days and pretty much back to normal.

Lost 22 lbs, but I do not recommend it as a diet plan.

southdakbearfan wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 7:52 pm Just going through my last day of quarantine.

Tested positive 13 days ago along with my 11 year old son. Fever, massive joint and body aches, night sweats the first 4 days. Got a little tickle/horseness in the back of my throat but finally feeling better now. Also had bad muscle cramps at night too, one so bad in my thigh I got a huge black and blue mark from it.

My son was down for about 2 days and pretty much back to normal.

Lost 22 lbs, but I do not recommend it as a diet plan.